Library Web Chic

Mashup is a piece of software that uses two or more pieces of software/services to make something new
Powerful real-time results
Mashup University - hands-on classroom style instruction
What’s go great about them

They don’t require coding skills
Results are instant

Ultimate in instant gratification

Results can be striking

Two categories of mashups

simple utilitarian - useful in some practical way
statement mashup - author [...]

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The first full day of Internet Librarian was great fun. My presentation when surprisingly well except for a minor issue when I did the live demo. I figured out what was wrong (something really dumb) and have attached a simple screencast demo of our Content Management System to the presentation section of this blog.
The presentation [...]

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This trip I’ve had my fair share of problems with wireless access. It seems to be everywhere in my room, at the conference center, and I have my choice of cafes with wireless. The problem is getting it to work. Today, I seem to be cursed. At the conference center I’ve had all sorts of [...]

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Sunday was the perfect day here at Internet Librarian. Since I had the whole day to myself I got to do some work, a little pleasure reading and hanging out. I had to switch hotels because when I made my reservations there wasn’t a room available in one place for the whole trip. I was [...]

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Jesse Andrews - creator of BookBurro and lead developer of Flock (http://overstimulate.com)
The room is WAY to empty for this session which is too bad because people should be paying attention to this.
Greasemonkey and User scripts

web is a playground

Book Burro

User scripts grow into Extensions

Flock

extensions grown into browsers

Browsers 101 - What are URLs
infotoday resolves to 216.83.98.6
document returned [...]

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This morning while I was having a mocha in the coffeeshop across the street from the conference center where IL is being held, I ran into Scott Brandt who commented about how much work he was getting done while he was on the road. It made me think about myself and my productivity levels. When [...]

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Today was the perfect example of why I LOVE coming to Internet Librarian. My only commitment was to teach an afternoon preconference workshop on AJAX for Libraries with Jason Clark. Co-teaching a preconference workshop was a new experience for me. But I really liked the dynamic that it created. Jason and I would have conversations [...]

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Gliffy is a nifty tool that Loomware - Crafting New Libraries highlighted. I got pretty excited about this because I like to make diagrams for my staff to look at to show how I want systems they are building to work. Typically, I need to share the diagrams with not only my staff but the [...]

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Dorothea has two different posts about open access and library literature. The second one has some great advice for authors about making sure your stuff is available via open access. I have to admit I have an article in the same netConnect supplement of Library Journal as Dorothea and didn’t ask about the self-archiving issue [...]

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I’ve arrived safely in Monterey for Internet Librarian after a full day of travelling. The weather here is great and I had a nice walk to get a panini at Plumes Coffee for lunch. Now I need to doing a bit of work including uploading presentations to my blog.
Tomorrow afternoon I’m teaching a preconference workshop [...]

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